discrepance

Example Sentences

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Excepting the General's most flimsy attempt at mystification, in regard to a discrepance between Talbott and myself, he has not denied a single statement that I made in my hand-bill.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Lincoln, Abraham

A group of strata having the same general lithological characters throughout may be marked by a great discrepance between the fossils above and below a certain line.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

Nay, God knows it is not so, and this will not explain the apparent discrepance.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

The causes of the difference of our species have been the subject of as great a discrepance in opinion.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo